Solution for Fatal flaw in D design which is holding back widespread adoption(tm)

["Jérôme M. Berger"]

Nick Sabalausky wrote:
> And here's an even crazier idea: Some sort of well-thought-out UCF format 
> (Unicode Code Format) that is like plain-text, but includes a standard 
> metadata header (typically hidden while editing) that can help sort all this 
> stuff out, and maybe other things as well. Obviously it would require 
> special support from compilers and editors, but if it was well-designed 
> (including discouragement of proprietary extensions - don't want a repeat of 
> HTML) then I think it would be worth trying to push.
> 
	You mean like the Emacs/vim headers which allow to specify
everything in special comments near the top or bottom of the file
and Emacs/vim sets the appropriate options automatically upon
loading the file?
http://www.gnu.org/software/emacs/manual/html_node/emacs/File-Variables.html

		Jerome
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